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Chechnya Conquered By Russia
Chechnya Conquered
Russia conquered Chechnya in early 1858 after many, many years of conflict and violence. Also, Imam Shamil and his fighters were murdered as he was trying to make Chechnya entirely Islam, which was against Russia's Russian Orthodox religion. One might think that conquering would settle the violence between the 2, however this only made things worse. -
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Activities of Shamil Baseyev, Militant Chechen Separatist Leader
Baseyev
Shamil Baseyev gained his reputation as a terrorist first in 1991 when he a Russian plan and directed to Ankara with the plan to hold a press conference to publicize the Chechen cause. During 1994 he became the leader of Chechen rebels and became the prime minister of Chechnya. He than continued his acts of terrorism until he was killed in 2006. -
Chechnya delacres independece from Russia
VideoIndependence Chechnya declared in pendec right after the collapse of the Soviet Union. It was split into the republic of Ingushetia which wanted to stay apart of Russia. While Chechnya wanted to be independent. Then Boris Yeltsin the president, sent in troops to stop the rebellion in Chechnya. -
Russia sent troops to crush the Chechnian Independece movement
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President Boris Yeltsin ordered tanks and troops into Chechnya to restore constitutional order in Chechnya. Hundreds of tanks and troops closed in on Grozny the capital of chechnyia. This ultimatly started a 2 year war where Chechnya was greatly out numbered. It is estamated that over 100,000 people. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFyK0wkkFcg -
cease-fire ended the fighting
Russia Chechnya and Terrorism
Peace agreement that granted Chechnya, and substantial autonomy Chechen rebels launch a successful attack. A agreement on Russian troop withdrawals is signed in November. -
Chechnya Makes Treaty with Russia
TreatyOn May 12 1997 Russia made a written treaty with Chechnya in order to stop some of the violence between the two countries. With the treaty in place the violence was sopposed to be eradicated but acts of terroism and destruction continued to occure with in Russia and Chechnya. -
Russia and Chechen Separatist Violence, Accusations of Terrorism
Terrorism Acts
After the treaty in 1997, rouge terrorist groups in both countries continued their attacks on each other. The groups continued to bomb cities, attack each others military, and take the lives of inisant civilians. Nothing was being done to stop the terrorists and there was not stability between the two countries until 2008. -
Russia proclaimed that its efforts against Chechen fighters were part of the "war on terrorism."
news of europeAfter 9/11 after the catastrophe of the 11 September attacks on the US, Putin urges rebels to "halt all contacts with international terrorists" -
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Beslan School Hostage Crisis
Children of BeslanBeslan Hostage CrisisOn the first day of the new school year 32 heavily armed men and two women wearing sucicde bomb belts. Initially 50 escaped, but over 120o were held hostage. They threatened to kill innocent people if anyone disobeyed their strict rules. It lasted three days and the government stromed the school on Sep. 4. -
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Beslan School Hostage Crisis
http://goo.gl/v9HDHAt this Beslan school Chechen Terrorist took 1,100 people hostage 777 of which were children. Ultimately was 334 hostages were killed including 186 children. The people that took over the school were sent by chechen warlord Samil Basayev.
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Russia Kills Warlord Shamil Basayev
Video Shamil Basayevv, responsible for the horrific Beslan terrorist attack was killed by Russian military who had been trying to track him down for quite sometime. He was responsible for many terrorist attacks on Russia and was their "most wanted" terrorist. -
Russia crushes independence movement
Russia Crushes Independence MovementRussia sent troops to crush the independence movement. Thousands of civilians were killed, and bombs destroyed much of Groznyy. Russian forces took control of Chechnya's main cities, but the conflict continued.
